Broadway theater coming to a movie screen near you — if you’re lucky

Posted onApril 26, 2011|Comments Off on Broadway theater coming to a movie screen near you — if you’re lucky

Broadway productions of Memphis, last year’s Tony-winner for best musical, and the critically acclaimed revival of The Importance of Being Earnest are headed for movie screens across the country this spring.

Also coming: The recent New York Philharmonic concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, which starred Patti LuPone and a host of TV stars, including Neil Patrick Harris (as Bobby) and Stephen Colbert.

The first screening to make it to this area will be Memphis, which will turn up on Central Florida screens beginning Thursday April 28 and continue April 30, May 1 and May 3. Here’s a list of area movie theaters presenting the show:

As for The Importance of Being Earnest, which stars Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell, you’ll have to go to Vero Beach to see it, on June 2 or 16. Bizarrely enough, the Cinema Majestic in Vero is the only theater in all of Florida screening the show.

I guess that movie-theater owners think there’s no audience for one of the funniest comedies of all time.

And, in the meantime, you can stay home and watch Broadway’s most recent Company, the one with the astonishing Raul Esparza, which turned up on PBS in 2008. That one — the best Company I’ve ever seen — is available on Netflix.